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    "ocrText": "237\n1852\nBE IT That\non\nthe\n28th\nday of Celober\nin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftyleve\nof in said County\nof Hartford, appeared in open Court, (the said Court being a Court of Record, having common Law juris-\ndiction, and a Clerk and seal,) and applied to be admitted and to become a citizen of the United States. And\nthe\nsaid oseph mandel. the then exhibited to the Court cortificate of the\nDeclaration of intention made by him before time of his said application\naud of his admission, as weitizen of the United\nStated, ad hereinafter specified\nand required as the first condition according to the first section of the Act of Congross entitled \"An Actte\nestablish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the Acts heretofore passed on that subject.\" Ap\nproved 14th of April, 1809, as follows:\n\"STATE OF CONNECTICUT,\nCOUNTY OF HARTFORD,\n68.\nin said County of Hartford, but late of the United Kingdom of Groat Britain\nand Iroland, appearee before the\nCourt for said County of Hartford, held at Hartford in\nsaid County, on the\nday of\nin the yoar of our Lord\none thousand eight hundred and\n(the said Court being a Court of Record,\nhaving Common Law Jurisdiction, and a Clork and soal,) and declared on oath in open Court, that it was\nbona fide his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and\nfidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nVicloria, queen\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\nIn-testimony whoroof, I have horounto set my hand and affixod the scal of said towhom\nthis their beew bjecklay of outhin the in-tho yoar of our\nLord one thousand eight hundred and houed totheratisfaction offaid Pomethable\nhad ceided in the United Stated.thic yeard afleadhing refrigerating Clerk.* his\nam use atthoaged twentyong yeard, wichocennedoutly\nand that three it \"hadbeenbona\n0 S\ntide his in tentions tobecomea citineod after United\nStates,\nand it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court,\nthat said toseph mandden\nhas resided within the United States five years at least, and in the State of Connecticut one year at least, and\nthat during said five years he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the\nConstitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.\nAnd the said Josephmander\nhaving declared on oath, that he would support\nthe Constitution of the United States, and that he did absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegi-\nance and fidelity to any foreign Prince, Potentate, State, or Sovereignty whatever, and particularly to\nActoria queen\nKing of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,\nJoseph Hardden be, and he was accordingly admitted to become a citizen of the\nof whom he was before a subject. It was therefore considered by the Court, that the daid\nUnited States."
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